"ART NOUVEAU RIGA!" Riga by balhannah

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  Yaqui Apr 7, 2013 at 8:06 AM

  Elizabetes Street Art Nouveau buildings are amazing and as well with everything you captured here. An exellent page and I appreciate the time and effort you put into your lovely pages!

  
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  Tatianita Mar 26, 2013 at 1:13 PM

  I am very glad you like Riga :)
  You write: "Many call Riga - Europe’ s capital of Art Nouveau" ! Do you know why ? It's because in Riga are about 800 buildings in true Art Nouveau (or as we here say: 'Jugendstils') ! Not only decorative Jugendstil, but also National Romantismus style and more rational Vertical style ...
  
  No one other city in the World have so many this style buildings ...
  
  Welcome to explore Riga :D
  

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    Tatianita Mar 26, 2013 at 1:43 PM

    I will do it :)
    I am still new here on virtual tourist, anyway registered long ago. .... i hope step by step i will understand how this site work and than publish more and more my experiences ...
    so I begin with my home city ... you can see how people celebrate in Riga ancient traditions here:
    "Riga - traditions" - Riga by Tatianita
    Unfortunately I don't find how to embed video here ... it look that is not possible ...

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    balhannah Mar 26, 2013 at 1:56 PM

    I haven't done video, but if you need help, then Hansi is the one to ask, he is an expert
    "Detroit's beautiful Skyline" - Waalewiener's Profile

  
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  xaver Nov 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM

  thanks for this tour, this part of Europe is still new for me

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    balhannah Nov 14, 2012 at 1:39 PM

    As you most probably guessed, I loved Riga!

  
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  Kuznetsov_Sergey Oct 26, 2012 at 8:38 AM

  I visited Riga many times 60th-80th but unfortunately never since then.
  I'd like to correct the joke about the three Riflemen. There wasn't such a custom in Soviet times for men to gather by four men together to have a drink but it was a custom to gather by three men for a bottle of vodka! Feel the difference!

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    balhannah Oct 27, 2012 at 6:58 PM

    Thanks Sergey. I deleted that part of the tip.

  
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  HORSCHECK Sep 10, 2012 at 2:52 AM

  Dee, I visited the capital of Latvia more than 10 years ago and I was also very impressed by the Art Nouveau buildings. I really like your photos of the details of these buildings. - Another of my favourite buildings is the Academy of Sciences, although the locals don't seem to like it.

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    balhannah Sep 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM

    Holger, thanks for visiting. I am really intrigued by what they can do with art nouveau. I just love it, and would have like to have kept wandering the streets, but I was with my husband and he would have thought I had really got lost if I did!!!

  
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  Regina1965 Jun 15, 2012 at 1:14 PM

  What a loely page, I didn´t know that the buildings there were so decorative. What a funny statue "The Musicians of Bremen" :)

  
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  mikelisaanna Feb 19, 2012 at 7:16 PM

  RIga looks like a very interesting city. I really enjoyed reading all of your tips.